Tag: birch

“What I want to paint are the things that have been seen so often that people no lenger notice them …” —Eliot Hodgkin morning walk in the woods “Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what’s been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new.”…

Ok, I admit it, this is a rather nerdy post, but all the talk about maples in my last post, made me wonder which are the most common Norwegian trees? Here they are: BIRCH: 4 billions SPRUCE: 3,1billions PINE: 1,4 billions ALDER ROWAN ASPEN WILLOW OAK HAZEL PRUNUS “Goat Willow” I must say I’m rather…

Birch pollen In To the River, Olivia Laing tell us about birch pollen being carried by the wind all the way from Jutland to Yorkshire. When doing a small-scale investigation into birches and pollination I came across this very intriguing information: When the German botanist and physician Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665-1721) first published the evidences of…